former spokesman himself from the department of justice. brian is joining us on the phone. i don t know if you read this memorandum from the deputy attorney general rod rosenstein. it makes all these points why they fired, why the president fired comey but refers to the way he treated your former boss, hillary clinton. hi, wolf. i agree with everything jeffrey toobin just said. i think all these months later, it still stands out that director comey s handling of the clinton e-mail investigation was a travesty. he broke very overtly and explicitly from all kind of justice department protocols and guidelines. but the timing and nature of this firing that the trump administration is announcing now belies any possible explanation that this has anything to do with the clinton investigation. it is clearly an act by a president who is feeling the heat from the fbi s ongoing russia investigation. and i know of the deputy
agree with joy very much that comey made a destructive testous mistake. the question is, would those of us who want who comy did really want donald trump to name the next director of the fbi? one of the functions of this report it depends on who jim comey really is. there is that side of jim comey and what he did here. he could use this to shake up the fbi, use this to solve perhaps om of the management problems he has with other parts of the fbi. ? yeah. but also i think the fact there is an investigation sends a small to people in the future that you can t just do stuff like this and have in accountable. this is the one way to have at least some accountability for an event that really helped shape our hess tree more than we would have ever expected. reaction continues to pour in to this announcement. we will have to have you back to talk about the book. my apologies about that. the breaking news is of course the news of the day. we are waiting to get some sort of response, we ass
was so one-sided cries out for investigation. consider the other day that the fbi director sold senator ron wyden in a congressional hearing that he could not confirm whether the fbi was investigating links between donald trump and russia because he said he could not speak publicly about an investigation that might be open of the how can he display that standard in the case of donald trump and follow a completely different standard when it came to hillary clinton. i m sure that s something the inspector general will want to get to the bottom of, too. how much of an impact do you think that all of this had on the outcome of the election? there is no question in my mind that it was decisive. everything that has been said about errors that the campaign made is true and valid. certainly, the campaign, if we had to do it all over again would have spent a lot more time in wisconsin and michigan. i think there is any number of tactical decisions that we would have made differently knowing
kind of comment or reaction to what has been breaking news that as you know developed over the last 40 minutes or so here. nothing yet. i wouldn t be surprised if maybe we say a tweet from the president-elect later today. if we get a statement we will bring it to you asap. what about this phone call between james clapper and donald trump? right, that happens overnight. before we get to that craig a quick reminder as we talk about this new oig investigation coming out. a couple of moments on the campaign trail that stand out, remember for months on the trail the president-elect, when he was a candidate called for an investigation into the investigation. the day that the news about the additional news on october 28th that broke about this inquiry or this review from james comey, the president-elect released a statement at the time that said essentially praising this move and later at a campaign rally said it took a lot of guts for james comey to do what he did. a lot of interesti
in late october and early november. joe, are you surprised at all that the inspector general has decided that this is worthy of review? no. i m not surprised at all. i was quickly looking up michael horowitz s term. how long it is. there is the subject of whether or not he could be fired by the president-elect. he is on a ten year term. who appointed him? president obama. okay. here s what we know. we know that the fib s field office, to brian fallon s point was self actualizing an investigation based on a book, based on clinton cash a widely debunked anti-clinton book that is actually tied to stephen steve bannon of it s tied to the think tavern he has in florida. his partner in the think tank is the author of the book. bannon was promoting the, into. suddenly conservative member of